en déshabillé
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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All en déshabillé, I commenced to pack our trunk, but had scarcely put an article in when they cried the Essex was rounding the point, and our last opportunity passing away.
From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Dawson, Sarah Morgan
In an outer room we met Mrs. B—— en déshabillé, and scarcely so pretty as at our first meeting, but for her smile, remarkable for its subtile, evanescent sweetness.
From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Leonowens, Anna Harriette
His biographer speaks of presenting "le héros en déshabillé."
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
After a great deal of trouble and bother, and poking of my nose into various interiors where the families were still en déshabillé, I unearthed my guide.
From Round About the Carpathians by Crosse, Andrew F.
"Miss Barker; Miss Agnes Barker," he said, as that girl presented herself and softly closed the door, "you are too kind—I only regret that this pleasant surprise detects me en déshabillé."
From Mabel's Mistake by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
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